Tamara Lorincz is a PhD graduand in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her doctoral thesis is titled “In the Line of Fire: Military Emissions, the National Security Exemption and NATO Expansion in Climate Governance.”
Tamara graduated with an MA in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom in 2015 on the Rotary International World Peace Fellowship. Her master’s thesis was “The War Within: A comparative analysis of the pervasiveness, prosecution and politics of violence against women in uniform in the American, British and Canadian militaries.” Tamara was a senior researcher for the International Peace Bureau in Geneva, Switzerland. She previously served as a commercial intern for Global Affairs Canada (formerly the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade) at the Canadian Embassy in Oslo, Norway.
Tamara has an LLB/JD and MBA specializing in environmental law and management from Dalhousie University. She is the former Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network and co-founder of the East Coast Environmental Law Association. For several years she was on the national board of Ecojustice Canada and the Nova Scotia Minister’s Round Table on the Environment and Sustainable Prosperity.
Currently, Tamara is a fellow with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute. She is also a part-time researcher with the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and a member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom-Canada.
Her research interests are the military’s impacts on the environment and climate change, ‘climate, peace & security’, Canadian defence and foreign policy, gender and international relations, ‘women, peace & security’, military sexual violence, militarism, demilitarization & disarmament, the Arctic as a zone of peace and cooperation, and resistance to NATO.